“Wairon and Waimansusu”: War Boat and Trade Boat of The Biak People in Papua-Indonesia by Rumbekwan Albert, Sulistiyono Singgih Tri, Rochwulaningsih Yety, Susilowati Endang, Ali Ismail, Masruroh Noor Naelil

“…Using a historical and ethnographic approach, this article reconstructs the manufacturing technology, cruising ability and carrying capacity of both types of boats in the context of voyaging, trading and hunting. Today, the manufacture of Wairon and Waimansusu is increasingly rare, despite their high cultural value and great potential to support the development of marine tourism in Cenderawasih Bay, Papua-Indonesia.…”
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Investigating the Impact of Anthropogenic and Natural Sources of Pollution on Quality of Water in Upper Indus Basin (UIB) by Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis by Mansoor A. Baluch, Hashim Nisar Hashmi

“…The parameters used for assessing the water quality were pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), oxygen reducing potential (ORP), electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), salinity (%), and concentration of arsenic (As) and lead (Pb), respectively. …”
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Fabrication of Hybrid Diamond and Transparent Conducting Metal Oxide Electrode for Spectroelectrochemistry by Jingping Hu, James Hodge, Arthur J. Boff, John S. Foord

“…As a second route, a diamond membrane in silicon frame was prepared by selective chemical etching, and a diamond optically transparent electrode (OTE) was constructed by assembling the diamond membrane on the top of an ITO-coated substrate. The resulting device exhibits a high optical transparency and quasireversible electrochemical kinetics, which are competitive to other diamond OTEs reported previously. …”
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Versatile nitrate-respiring heterotrophs are previously concealed contributors to sulfur cycle by Bo Shao, Yuan-Guo Xie, Long Zhang, Yang Ruan, Bin Liang, Ruochen Zhang, Xijun Xu, Wei Wang, Zhengda Lin, Xuanyuan Pei, Xueting Wang, Lei Zhao, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Wu, Defeng Xing, Aijie Wang, Duu-Jong Lee, Nanqi Ren, Donald E. Canfield, Brian P. Hedlund, Zheng-Shuang Hua, Chuan Chen

“…However, their inability to oxidize sulfide renders them vulnerable to this toxic molecule, which inhibits the key enzymatic reaction responsible for reducing nitrous oxide (N2O), thereby raising greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Complete Sequence and Characterization of Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Genome of <i>Navicula incerta</i> CACC 0356 by Zhaokai Wang, Xiaoyu Wei

“…Our annotation identified four genes that are partially situated in the homologous regions between the mitogenome and chloroplast genome, totaling 372 bp, which represents 0.61% of the entire mitogenome. …”
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Genetic Analysis of in Korean Patients Associated with Atrioventricular Conduction Block by Hyoung Seob Park, Yoon Nyun Kim, Young Soo Lee, Byung Chun Jung, Sang Hee Lee, Dong Gu Shin, Yongkeun Cho, Myung Hwan Bae, Sang Mi Han, Myung Hoon Lee

“…In the present study, a total of 7 genetic variations were detected in 113 AVB patients. …”
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Diagnosis of Open and Short Circuit Intermittent Connection Faults for DeviceNet Based on Multilayer Information Fusion and Circuit Network Analysis by Longkai Wang, Yong Lei

“…Next, by mapping the fault scope to exact cable links using an undirected graph-based topology representation, the possibilities of faults occurring on every link are derived based on the mapping relationships and corresponding alarms. …”
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Effects of cassava pellets and enzymes addition on growth performance, meat quality, serum biochemical indices and cecum microbiota of broilers by Dan Yue, Ying Lu, Jin Zhao, Xiaoming He, Junhong Zhu, Jiawei Liang, Weidong Deng

“…This study aimed to investigate the effects of cassava pellets and enzymes supplementation on the growth performance, meat quality, serum biochemical indices, and cecal microbial community of broiler chicks. A total of 144 healthy 1-day-old AA broilers were randomly assigned to six dietary groups: basal diet (K1), basal diet + 5 % cassava pellets (K2), basal diet + 10 % cassava pellets (K3), basal diet + 20 % cassava pellets (K4), basal diet + 20 % cassava pellets + 0.3 % tannase (K5), and basal diet + 20 % cassava pellets + 0.3 % tannase + 2500 U/kg α-amylase (K6). …”
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Clinical Results after High-Dose Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for High-Risk Prostate Cancer by Valérie Fonteyne, Nicolaas Lumen, Geert Villeirs, Piet Ost, Gert De Meerleer

“…High-dose IMRT and AD for high-risk PC offers excellent biochemical and clinical control with low toxicity.…”
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Scheduling on a Single Machine and Parallel Machines with Batch Deliveries and Potential Disruption by Hua Gong, Yuyan Zhang, Puyu Yuan

“…The objective is to find a coordinated schedule of production and delivery that minimizes the expected total flow times plus the delivery costs. We first present some properties and analyze the NP-hard complexity for four various problems. …”
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O uso de diferentes representações na resolução de problemas de divisão inexata: analisando a contribuição da calculadora by Ana Coelho Vieira Selva, Rute Elizabete de Souza Rosa Borba

“…O desempenho no pós-teste foi superior ao pré-teste em todos os grupos. Na 3ª série, o uso da calculadora foi mais efetivo após a resolução no papel do que antes. …”
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W stronę transnarodowej wrażliwości? Strategie kulturowego otwarcia i gatunkowej asymilacji w kinematografii islandzkiej po roku 2000 by Sebastian Jakub Konefał

“….: debata dotycząca wzrastającej roli kobiet w życiu politycznym i kulturalnym czy problemy z asymilacją emigrantów i tolerancją wobec mniejszości seksualnych. Ze zmianą tematyki wiążą się też zapożyczone z Ameryki i Europy odmienne sposoby mówienia o kulturowym otwieraniu się Islandii, takie jak krytyka nacjonalistycznej retoryki wcześniejszych tekstów kultury. …”
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Assessment of ChatGPT-generated medical Arabic responses for patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. by Saleh A Alqahtani, Reem S AlAhmed, Waleed S AlOmaim, Saad Alghamdi, Waleed Al-Hamoudi, Khalid Ibrahim Bzeizi, Ali Albenmousa, Alessio Aghemo, Nicola Pugliese, Cesare Hassan, Faisal A Abaalkhail

“…<h4>Background and aim</h4>Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT), have shown promising results in healthcare settings. These tools can help patients obtain real-time responses to queries, ensuring immediate access to relevant information. …”
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Using X-Ray CT Scanning to Study the Failure Mechanism of Concrete under Static and Dynamic Loadings by Guangyu Lei, Jichang Han, Faning Dang

“…In this study, real-time X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning of concrete specimens under static and dynamic loadings was done. …”
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„Komm’ und entdecke Deine (Liebes-) Geschichte“ by Sabina Owsianowska

“…In Verbindung mit größeren wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Veränderungen nach dem Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus wurden die Tourismusbetreiber auf unterschiedliche Weise aktiv. In diesem Zusammenhang kann der Veränderung des seit Jahrzehnten verwurzelten Vorstellungsbilds der Region – und bestimmter Länder –eine Schlüsselrolle zugewiesen werden. …”
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A New Type of Magnetic Actuator Capable of Wall-Climbing Movement Using Inertia Force by H. Yaguchi, S. Sakuma, T. Kato

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Effect of Praziquantel on Preventing Delayed Infection of <i>Schistosoma japonicum</i> in Buffaloes and Goats by Xiang Gui, Bing Shao, Haoran Zhong, Rongxue Lv, Hao Li, Ke Lu, Yang Hong, Zhiqiang Fu, Zhenjie Lu, Mengge Xu, Yamei Jin, Jinming Liu

“…The results showed significant reductions in total worm burden and female worm burden, with one oral administration at 13 mg/kg for buffaloes and one injection at 25 mg/kg for goats offering the most robust protection. …”
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Clinical manifestations of coronary artery embolism due to heart tumors by R.M. Vitovsky, V.V. Isaіenko, O.V. Kupchinsky, I.V. Martyschenko, M.M. Serdyuk

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The usability and technology acceptance of immersive virtual reality simulation for critical infrastructure workers by Andrzej Grabowski

“…In addition to the usability and technology acceptance, the level of simulator sickness, the realism of the simulation, the workload and stress caused by the training tool, as well as an overall assessment of the training quality were examined. …”
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LIGHTWEIGHT OPTIMIZATION OF VEHICLE FRAME STRUCTURE BASED ON THE KRIGING APPROXIMATE MODEL by REN Ming, SUN Tao, SHI YongJin, ZHENG SongLin, LI YuGang

“…The Kriging method was adopted for the multi-objective system of the frame NVH,torsional stiffness,bending stiffness and frame quality,an approximate model was optimized by using NSGA,and then the Pareto optimal solution set was obtained.…”
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